Word: upbeat
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...insult Eliot House?A: Oooh. Ask the Harvard Concert Commission.15. FM: Anything else you’d like to add?A: This is going to be a sweet event. I’m really excited and I think everyone should be too. (emphatic finger snap) That was a good upbeat answer...
...recognizable blend of punk, ska, folk, R&B and rock through his usual pop filter. The ease and confidence with which the band plays is immediately apparent, though ultimately points to a much larger problem: Leo has, either with the Pharmacists or previous outfits, made this album before. The upbeat, four-minute tracks that once drove his records are now thoroughly unoriginal. On “Living with the Living,” Leo fails to realize that his music is at its best when the melody is powerful enough to drive the listener through the chore of listening...
Some French commentators, including the best-selling author Nicolas Baverez, view the outflow of talent as the latest manifestation of French decline. Others are more upbeat - the french conquest of the world blazed the headline of one article on the issue in the right-wing daily Le Figaro - and the official government line is that this exodus is a welcome sign that young French people are keen to broaden their horizons. At the same time, the government has been putting in place several programs designed to encourage émigrés to return, including offering cash incentives to talented scientists...
Ronald Reagan's upbeat personality developed early in life as a way to both accept and transcend a beloved alcoholic father. But years of performing and public speaking molded it into a persona that helped win landslides and kept his enemies off balance. Reagan could go to Berlin and tell Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" just months after negotiating earnestly with the Soviet leader at Reykjavk, all the while withholding concessions on the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the very thing Gorbachev most wanted...
...were all pretty upbeat and just fought through,” Liao said. “People really stuck their shots that game...